. >> mark, we have been talking about how stuart stevens and mitt romney got together and decided they weren't going to be really specific about the next four years, but the press hasn't been focusing as much on the white house's decision to really say next to nothing about what they're going to do over the next four years. who made that decision? when did they make that decision? when you write "game change," what's the key moment where they said, listen, we're not going to get really specific about the next four years? >> i think after the bungts deal fell apart, the grand bargain with john boehner and they decided to spend the last year drawing contrast with the other party. my criticism of the president in the debate and the reason i didn't give him a higher grade is because he wasn't specific and dealing with people in the president's campaign who criticized the relatively low grade for a guy who won, i said name what he said that was specific. in the debate, he said, i need another term to keep doing what i did in the first term. and a lot of americans think the first term was no